Serious graphics issues with ATI Radeon HD 5870

BioShock 2 Graphics Performance In-depth: Actually the issue with changing the resolution was again only limited to ATI graphics cards, though once or twice the issue presented itself when using Nvidia hardware.

Crysis Warhead performance in-depth: It is no secret that the CryEngine 2 favors Nvidia based graphics cards. But these playable medium quality settings show the Radeon based graphics cards at a significant disadvantage

Far Cry 2 performance in-depth: Thankfully stability didn't appear to be an issue with any of the tested ATI cards, except when running the time demos. While normal gameplay worked fine, the time demos were very jerky every few seconds and this problem persisted when testing all ATI-based graphics cards. The Nvidia GeForce cards on the other hand were as smooth as silk, unless they were labeled 9600 GSO or 9500 GT.

Fallout 3 graphics performance in-depth: For now it seems that Nvidia has once again got the jump on ATI, offering slightly better driver support allowing the GeForce GTX 280 to reign supreme.

I have played all those games on my ATI card and experienced no issues. Benchmarking and real world performance are very different. Benchmarking may yield issues that may or may not be reproducible during actual gameplay.

maybe they are different , mayb theyre not...with benchmarking they create the perfect scenarios (all the hardware is top notch) so i'd say benchmark performance is a good indication of how the cards will perform in the real world....

Holy Hannah Rocky! now that's some serious cherry picking of the benches right there! ....well done. For every one of your "examples" I can show you many more (and more current) that shows the opposite....nice try though
all I care about is performance and price/performance, don't care if its red or green. and for this point in time, and on this build, my dollars are going red.

lol it started off as a joke

Thus the smiley face....

Hey man! thanks for your suggestions/not going on a crazy rant - apparently my card is ugly :blush:

First of all, you guys having your fake/joke/not fake arguement, take it easy hahaha, i don't want my shitty computer causing all this histeria!! (jks i kinda do. but not really. i dunno.)

In answer to your question: my old computer (which wasn't really that old) died because the graphics card just totally got busted. I was told by alot of people that my computer was fine but i just needed a new card (kinda an important part of a computer i guess ) so I bought my new card.

The guy just stuck the new graphics card in for me really. assembling computers is his job so i don't think he would have stuffed it up...

what he said exactly is actually that some people with my graphics card and motherboard combo experience problems turning the computer on, because for some reason the graphics card doesn't get enough power and therefor nothing displays on screen. He said that all these people had the same issues and the same solution - just turn the computer on and off. the computer wouldn't start perhaps one in 5 times.

ANYWAY, he demonstrated this to me, and sure enough what he said would happen happened when we were in his office. bout 2 weeks later this bullshit starts happening. now i can't get back onto him and im not sure if he could help anyway - he's more of a builder/electrition then a computer genius.

Just so I know - what is the VDDC current exactly?

thanks so much people

Its a genuine disagreement,I just don't like to get nasty over graphic cards
anyway


CPU VDDC (or CPU Vcore Offset) can be used to adjust the CPU
Vcore above the max VID value. comes in handy for heavy OC'ing with say LN2.

...and for god sake, get a prettier graphics card will ya?

Come on, the 480 may be #1 in terms of pure power, but the trade off is huge. The heat is going to raise your system temperature, you're going to have a larger power draw, and despite Nvidia's assurances, running that hot can't be good for the card or the computer.

The step they're taking is just not in the right direction. We all know what the future is leading to. Small tiny computers we're gonna keep in our pockets and flexible displays we unroll from some tube. The point is to be smaller, cooler, more efficient and faster. If you can't go in that direction, then you should keep working?

What you're describing sounds like the PowerPlay functionality of the card. It sounds like you either have an early BIOS - or maybe not so early if the card is XFX branded, or your card is afflicted with the batch of bad vRAM chips that ended up on some early HD5970/5870/5850/5770 cards.
If it's either of those scenario's then you are best to initiate an RMA. Flashing a VGA BIOS can void your warranty, although I know from experience that XFX will email you an amended BIOS and allow you to flash the card should you want to try rather than send the card off.


My $0.02 on the other "discussion" here...
Red or green I doubt anyone could tell by what they were gaming on simply by gaming performance or fps, with two exceptions that I've experienced. STALKER (and CS, CoP) just feel better played on ATI cards, likewise GTA4 feels much better on nVidia cards. Other than that the drivers are pretty closely matched.
I will however say that the nVidia CP is light years ahead of CCC, which in all honesty deserves to have a bullet put in the back of it's interface.

Is your card plugged into the PSU or is it just drawing power through the slot? It should be plugged in into the PSU.

I think I actually used to have your motherboard with an old build, the AMD version of it anyway. The board failed, so I can empathize.

thanks guys!

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan ... i am gonna have to look into this **** - sooo annoying.

thanks for your help, i will hit you up if i find the solution

Nomorelols,

Go into the Device Manger and disable the Ati video card HD audio codec. Then, test the PC in games and report back if the issue remains.